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Equity has been a publicly endorsed norm since the achievement of independence. Various researches have demonstrated, however, that in spite of this ethical and legal commitment, highly concentrated patterns of distribution of income, wealth and power, as well as inequitable access to state services, still persist in Latin America. This article examines the cause of this gap between norms and realities

The author contends that the analysis of devlopment has now entered into a phase of perplexity and disillusionment. Neither collective nor professional agents have consistently played the parts assigned to them in the 1950s and 1960s. Meanwhile governments and political movements, even if convinced that their countries need bold innovations in development policy, are overwhelmed by the tasks of crisis management